Among the mistakes Yahoo! made after Ring's time there -- an offer to buy Google for $1 million that Yahoo! turned down, and a deal to buy Facebook for $1.1 billion that fell through when Yahoo! lowballed.

Spicer served as President Donald Trump's first press secretary, bursting onto the public stage in January with a scolding rant against reporters, accusing them of lowballing the size of the Inauguration Day crowd.

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